The Ancient Parish of ROTHERHAM

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]

"ROTHERHAM, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and
Tickhill; 6 miles from Sheffield, 11 from Tickhill, 12 from Doncaster and
Barnsley, 15 from Penistone, 16 from Worksop, (Notts.) 49 from York, 160 from
London. Market, Monday. Fairs, Whit Monday; December 1, for horses,
horned cattle, sheep, &c. and Fortnight Fairs on Monday, for horned cattle,
&c. Bankers, Messrs. Walkers, Eyer, and Stanley, draw on Messrs. Everett,
Walker, and Co. 9, Mansion House Street. Principal inns, Crown, and Red
Lion. Pop. 3,548. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Ann, in the
deanry of Doncaster, value, ~£16. 8s. 6d. Patron, Lord Howard.

Rotherham is situated near the conflux of the rivers Rother and Don;
the latter of which being navigable to Sheffield, and communicating with
canals and rivers, opens a water communication with all the principal towns
in the county; as well as Lincolnshire and Lancashire. The town is far fron
elegant; the streets are narrow, and irregular; and the houses have, in
general, a dull and dingy appearance. However, a considerable trade is here
carried on in coals, an in other articles, by means of the river Don.

This place is rendered famous by the birth of Thomas Scott,
Archbishop of York, usually called Thomas of Rotherham, who founded in this
place Jesus College, for a provost, five priests, six choristers, and three
schoolmasters, which was valued at the dissolution, at the yearly rent of
£58. 5s. 9½d. He died of the plague at Cawood, in 1500. --Drake.

Here is a Free Grammar School, founded in 1584, by Laurence Woodnett,
and Anthony Collins, Esqrs. formerly of London. The School is open to the
boys of the town indefinitely free of expense, for classics only. This
School has a claim in its turn to the fellowship and two scholarships at
Emanuel College, Cambridge, founded by Mr. Frieston, in case the same are not
occupied from the Free School at Normanton. There is a fellowship also at
Lincoln College, Oxford. To this School there is a crown payment of £10.
15s. 4d. per annum, to the master. The master's salary, including house
rent, &c. £30. a year; besides which, he has a gratuity from the Feoffees or
Trustees. The present master is the Rev. Benjamin Birkitt. For an account
of the Iron Works, see Marsbrough."

Information on the following places in
this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

The following transcriptions are transcriptions of transcriptions originally done in 1988
by Wath and Mexborough Archives. These documents have many typographical errors and so we
cannot vouch for the accuracy in the original transcription. If you find anything of interest
here, please be sure to check the original Parish Registers source material.
Transcriptions by Jack Parry of:

Looking out from near Keppel's Column,
Hoober Stand can be seen at the top of a hill.
The
inscription above the door says....

This pyramidall building was erected by his Majesty's most dutiful subject
Thomas Marquess of Rockingham in grateful respect to the preserver of our
religious laws and libertys King George the Second who, by the blessing of
God having subdued a most unnatural rebellion in Britain anno 1746 maintains
the balance of power and settles a just and honourable peace in Europe 1748.

It was built (1747/8) by Thomas
Watson Wentworth to celebrate the defeat of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745.
Wentworth fought on the side of the King who made him Marquis in recognition
of his help. Hoober Stand was built to show the King his gratitude. (Susan Jepson, 2003.)

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